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Subject: Re: Port Upgrade of XFree
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On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:07 pm, Gerard Samuel wrote:
> Im running into this error trying to upgrade X via portupgrade on a
> FBSD 5.1 box
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXfont
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/programs/bdftopcf.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/programs.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients.
> ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
> /tmp/portupgrade41317.9 make DEPENDS_TARGET=package
> ** Fix the problem and try again.
>
> Could anyone point me in the right direction...
> Thanks
>


You deinstalled an old version of XFree86-server, which deinstalled 
Xfont. You have to reinstall -libraries to fix the problem.

Kent

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